Janet Alcorn earned a Bachelor of Music degree from Northwestern Univ. and a Master of Music in Voice and Voice Therapy from Boston Univ. She was a member of the Metropolitan Opera Studio and New York City Opera and sang major roles with the opera companies of Cleveland, Dallas, Philadelphia, Frankfurt and Manilla. She has appeared as soloist with many symphony orchestras including Philadelphia, Cleveland and Cincinnati. She was on the faculty of the Cleveland Institute of Music for many years, and was then Assoc. Prof. of Voice and Director of the Opera Studio at Iowa State Univ. from which she recently retired with Emerita status. She was Iowa District Director of the Metropolitan Opera National Auditions. Her primary scholarly interests are vocal health and rehabilitation and musicians’ health. She is Vice President of the McClosky Institute of Voice, where she trains other teachers in vocal health techniques. She has also studied extensively in somatics, body mapping and the Alexander Technique. She is a certified Andover Educator, teaching courses and giving workshops such as “What Every Musician (Singer) Needs to Know about the Body.”